{"id":2274798,"date":"2026-02-09T21:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2274798"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:50:28","slug":"awkward-hot-mic-catches-winter-olympics-broadcasters-cutting-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/awkward-hot-mic-catches-winter-olympics-broadcasters-cutting-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"AWKWARD! Hot Mic Catches Winter Olympics Broadcaster&#8217;s Cutting Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>NBC Sports broadcaster Todd Richards has addressed the hot mic moment in which he described the men\u2019s snowboard big air final at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics as \u201cboring.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cThat was boring, that was so boring. I thought the qualifiers were better,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@armishork\/video\/7604220095228923167?_r=1&amp;_t=ZT-93lUcEa5Qic\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"viewers heard\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6989ae96e4b02d49a7789ff4\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@armishork\/video\/7604220095228923167?_r=1&amp;_t=ZT-93lUcEa5Qic\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\">viewers heard<\/a> the snowboarding legend tell co-host Todd Harris during the live broadcast on NBC Sports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>After the comment went viral on social media, Richards shared a video on Instagram to admit he did think \u201cthe qualifiers were better\u201d and \u201cmore exciting,\u201d pointing to their \u201cdrama\u201d and different creative tricks and spins. \u201cIn the final? A lot of people fell and a lot of people truly did the same trick,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p><strong>Watch the full video on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUeLZOTAfFU\/\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Instagram\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6989ae96e4b02d49a7789ff4\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUeLZOTAfFU\/\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Richards stressed his comments were not a criticism of the athletes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cThat had nothing to do with what these athletes do because the riders come out here and they throw down,\u201d he said. \u201cI have the utmost respect for them. It really just lent itself to the format, and I thought the qualifier had a lot more excitement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cIt truly wasn\u2019t about them,\u201d the pundit added. \u201cThese guys are my heroes, they are my friends, they are my colleagues and they are all rippers. So, huge shout-outs to everyone who came out here tonight and threw down.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>In the caption of the Instagram post, Richards said it was \u201cnothing I wouldn\u2019t say to a reporter or in public\u201d and \u201cwas my opinion based on what I saw in the qualifier vs the final medal round.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cNot one word I said had anything to do with a rider in this event. I feel like I shouldn\u2019t have to say that, but I am. They all rule,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"cli cli-related-articles js-cet-subunit\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC Sports broadcaster Todd Richards has addressed the hot mic moment in which he described the men\u2019s snowboard big air final at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics as \u201cboring.\u201d \u201cThat was boring, that was so boring. I thought the qualifiers were better,\u201d viewers heard the snowboarding legend tell co-host Todd Harris during the live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2274799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[419547,440402,419548],"class_list":["post-2274798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-olympics","tag-snowboarding","tag-winter-olympics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AWKWARD-Hot-Mic-Catches-Winter-Olympics-Broadcasters-Cutting-Comment.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2274800,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274798\/revisions\/2274800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}